Gou An once doubted whether he looked too pitiful, which was why he raised He Jinxing's friendship level to [30] without doing anything.

It's probably like there's a wet cat in a broken cardboard box on the roadside on a rainy day. Even if the cat is ugly, at that moment people will think it's a harmless little creature.

At least I won't walk up to it and kick it to make it go away.

The man holding the umbrella walked in front of Gou An, so close that she could see the brand logo on the zipper of his sports jacket. He stopped and looked down at her condescendingly.

Then he actually pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket - but not a stupid business card - but a handwritten note and handed it right under her nose.

Gou An had no doubt that he just remembered it when he was about to go out, and then he casually picked up a note from the shoe cabinet and wrote it there.

The above is just a simple string of numbers.

“WeChat is the same.”

He Jinxing explained with rare patience, and his tone was just like a good parent who always keeps his word and is responsible to his younger generation.

Gou An took the note, took a look at it, and put it in his pocket expressionlessly. His mind was blank, but he still said "thank you" as if it was a conditioned reflex. He was really polite.

Her silly look made the man in front of her curl his lips silently. Regardless of whether he was really entertained or not, he still gently reminded her that if she was not preparing to go out, she should not stand in the yard.

"The autumn rain is cold," he said, "and you'll catch a cold."

Leaving behind these seven simple words, he passed by Gou An and climbed the steps to her porch.

Gou An turned around when he heard Ade call out "Mr. He" in surprise, and saw the man putting away the big black umbrella and raising his hand to brush away the rain falling on his shoulders.

Then he handed the umbrella to Ade, thanked him politely, and when he stood up again, his expression changed -

For someone like He Jinxing, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a smiling tiger. No one knows what is really going on in his head. This person is extremely good at downward socializing. For example, at this moment, he can gently say "thank you" to the neighbor's maid, as if being humble and polite.

Gou An suspected that he could maintain such an expression even when he was really angry, which would be a bit scary.

What was even more disturbing at this moment was that the relaxation disappeared from this man's face, and was replaced by absolute caution. His dark pupils were so deep that no one knew where they were focused.

With such a serious face, He Jinxing turned and entered her house.

Until his back disappeared from her sight, he never looked at her again, not even once.

It was as if the brief conversation between them just now was just Gou An’s own illusion.

“…”

What is he here for?

Gou An blinked, temporarily forgetting the negative emotions caused by the quarrel with Gou Xun just now, and actually followed him back to the porch obediently, put away the umbrella, and sneaked back to the living room.

Jiang Yuan was the only one in the living room. She was saying things like, "If you don't go home tonight, don't come back in your life," "You don't have to apologize to your sister if you don't want to," and "Do you think I still have the energy to have another child?" to someone on WeChat who she knew was Gou Xun.

He was talking happily when he was caught off guard and made eye contact with his daughter who had just returned to the living room. She pointed in the direction of the study upstairs and made a "shut up" expression to Gou An.

Gou An came over and asked, "Is our family going to go bankrupt? Or is the He family going to go bankrupt?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the back in a reproachful manner.

Gou An sniffed and said, "I met He Jin in the yard. He looked so serious that he seemed to be here to borrow money."

Although I don’t know who lent it to whom.

Jiang Yuan: “…”

Jiang Yuan was fed up with his daughter's outspokenness, but since she seemed to have regained some of her spirit and knew how to joke, he did not blame her too much. He just slapped her lightly again and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Also, don't address the elders by their full names."

Gou An: “…”

What elder? He is just a few years older than her.

The elders in the study upstairs were discussing something mysteriously, and no sound could be heard.

But after a long time, I heard a "pop" sound, as if a piece of paper was thrown on the table.

Gou An and Jiang Yuan turned their heads at the same time and looked towards the study upstairs. Jiang Yuan frowned slightly and looked a little worried, while Gou An looked worried to the extent that his father was killed by He Jinxing.

But after the sound disappeared in an instant, the second floor returned to its original tranquility.

Gou An sat on the sofa, thought for a while and found nothing to do, so he took out the note from his pocket, entered the number into the address book, thought about it and used the cold "Mr. He" as the note name, then searched for the number and added it on WeChat.

【Jiao Jiao: Wow, you really added me on WeChat—Are you not afraid of He Jin? 】

Gou An: Who did you learn this gangster tone from?

Gou An: Compared to other people, haven't you noticed that the person who has launched the least evil magic attacks against me is He Jin? People are afraid of comparison just like pigs are afraid of getting fat. I'm not really an ungrateful person.

[Jiao Jiao: I’m afraid you’ll be sold and still count money for others. ]

Gou An: What's wrong with you? I'm a little less afraid of the male protagonist now. Shouldn't I be excited?

[Jiao Jiao: Based on my cat's sixth sense, I always feel that the male protagonist is a bit dangerous... To be honest, I stayed up late last night to finish reading the main plot of the original novel that I can read with my current authority. According to the general routine, after the female protagonist is tortured in the front, it is time to torture the male protagonist, right? ]

[Jiao Jiao: But this author is so partial to the Mariana Trench. Let me put it this way, if the first one million words are all about torturing the heroine, then the last fifty thousand words lightly give the hero a little trouble that almost makes him go bankrupt——]

Gou An pricked up his ears: The He family is indeed bankrupt!

【Jiao Jiao: No! 】

[蕉蕉: It was just a plot set up by the male lead. He probably pretended to be poor for three or four chapters, wrote a little bit about the female lead's loyalty to the male lead, and the male lead seemed very moved (I don't know if he was really moved), and then it just ended casually. 】

[Jiao Jiao: Wow, there are so many negative reviews. The readers who were waiting for the crematorium of chasing their wives have read more than one million words and only saw this. The author must be scolded to death! ]

[Jiao Jiao: Some people questioned what the author wrote, because in the end it didn’t say whether the hero loved the heroine or not! ]

The fat cat was spitting all over the place, as if he was talking about some fresh gossip.

[Jiao Jiao: I also once thought that He Jinxing might be heartless, not as good as the noisy He Ran. Although he is a moron, his struggle over who to choose between you and Lu Wan is genuine—]

Gou An: ...

[Jiao Jiao: This domineering boss novel is a bit strange. The male protagonist is very split and weird. It seems that he loves the domineering boss job more than other messy things... You see, the vicious female supporting role drugged him and he didn't react immediately. Under normal circumstances, he shouldn't have been cremated the next day and his ashes scattered overnight? ]

Gou An: …Why did you sound so excited when you imagined me being urgently cremated?

[Jiao Jiao: What exactly does He Jinxing want to do? 】

[Jiao Jiao: You did so many bad things but he didn't care until you did something as outrageous as attempted murder. Only then did he come forward like a tool to send you to jail.]

Gou An: ...Don't remind me of the stupid things I've done!

【Jiao Jiao: Hehehe! 】

[Jiao Jiao: You've done it, but you're still afraid of what others will say! ]

[Jiao Jiao: Speaking of which, compared to you, a very competent tool and a vicious female supporting role, he is really unprofessional as a domineering CEO. Other domineering CEOs become love-brained like Lin Daiyu in the later stages of their careers. When the female protagonist doesn't want a domineering CEO, the domineering CEO smokes, drinks, doesn't sleep, and has to put himself in the hospital. The worst case scenario is that he even gets leukemia——]

【Jiao Jiao: He Jinxing has absolutely no such attitude. His attitude is so casual, so casual that it is not normal at all. 】

Gou An: What do you want to say? [Jiao Jiao: For safety reasons, stay away from things that are out of control. ]

【Jiao Jiao: As for the male protagonist's friendliness, we... ahem, just take a sip. 】

Gou An: Do you think he is a can? You can open it, drink some soup and put it back in the refrigerator!

Gou An was standing with his hands on his hips, imagining poking the fat cat's furry head and scolding it for being useless. At this moment, the door of the study on the second floor opened.

The man who had just been madly slandered by the two of them and the cat as being heartless walked out, but Gou Yu was not following him.

After going downstairs, He Jinxing politely said goodbye to Jiang Yuan, and then walked into the yard. When she passed Gou An again, she saw a thin mark on his chin, as if it was scratched by a wire.

Fresh, still oozing blood.

He Jinxing raised his hand nonchalantly and wiped the blood off the wound with his thumb. He lowered his head and glanced at the red mark on his fingertips, his eyes expressionless...

Just paused.

As if he remembered something, he turned around and looked deeply at Gou An who was standing beside him.

She rushed upstairs in one quick step, shouting "Dad" and pounced into the study like a frightened bird. She rolled and crawled to break open the half-open study door. The first person who caught her eyes was Gou Yu sitting behind the desk.

Gou An first breathed a sigh of relief that he was still alive.

Then I realized that the atmosphere was not right——

Gou Yu's gentle appearance in front of others was gone. His sleeves were pulled up to his elbows, his hair was a little messy, and his pair of deep eyes, which were exactly the same as Gou An's, were flashing...

The desk under him was a mess, with white documents scattered all over the floor like snowflakes. Some of the stacks were probably scattered when they were thrown at someone with too much force, so that the staples on them were also lifted up.

The sharp wires pointed quietly toward the sky.

Gou An froze at the door of the study, her mind full of thoughts about how before she was thrown into prison, her biological father might be sent in by He Jinxing to pave the way for her and so on.

Just then, she heard Gou Yu calling her name, in exactly the same tone as when he called her to dinner today.

"An An, your engagement with He Ran is cancelled."

“…”

"In a couple of days, the two families will have a meal together, and this matter will be officially over."

At this moment, Gou An couldn't believe her ears. The huge surprise overwhelmed her mind and she blinked blankly...

Suddenly she realized what He Jinxing was doing at her house.

As if possessed by some mysterious force, Gou An ran downstairs and chased after him.

It was not known whether he was waiting for her on purpose or was just walking slowly, but when she rushed back to the entrance, the man was still standing outside the door, slowly opening his black umbrella.

He turned around upon hearing the noise, and was unexpectedly met with a pair of bright black eyes - the almond-shaped eyes seemed to burst with unusually bright and dazzling colors at this moment - the eldest daughter of the Gou family was always a person who would write her emotions on her face, and at this moment, she was looking at him eagerly with her sparkling eyes.

A look of great joy.

More vivid than ever.

It was at this moment that He Jinxing suddenly realized that he had never seen his reflection so clearly imprinted in the pair of black eyes in front of him.

So the action of holding the umbrella paused, and the man slightly curved his eyes with an ambiguous expression: "It seems that you have heard some good news."

Gou An wished he could kowtow to the King of Hell.

And from today on, the one before you is not the King of Hell, but the kind-hearted Bodhisattva.

"Today, I didn't have a very smooth day." Gou An licked his lower lip. "I had a fight with someone in the morning, and had another big fight with my brother at noon. I almost thought that today would be included in the top three of the 'darkest day of my life' -"

She spoke incoherently, hesitating on her words, "It doesn't seem so bad now."

He Jinxing didn't say anything, but just waited quietly for her to finish her words.

Gou An said sincerely: "Well, thank you."

She raised her face slightly and looked at the man in front of her. Her fair cheeks turned a little red, but at least it wasn't her eyes that were red this time.

He Jinxing was silent for a few seconds, and for no reason he seemed to be infected by her "super happy" mood and relaxed a little, but he sneered with an ambiguous tone: "This is the second time you've thanked me today."

He paused.

"It seems that my nephew is really terrible. You are so happy that you don't have to marry him... I suddenly started to worry. Is there something wrong with the He family's education?"

Gou An: “…”

oh.

So happy.

I suddenly forgot that the person I was happily breaking off the engagement with was someone's nephew, my own.

Gou An raised his hands, cupped his face, and adjusted the ecstasy on his face.

After thinking about it, she took out the note that the man had just handed to her from her pocket and handed it back to him.

"Mr. He."

The address changed back, but this time it was with genuine respect, not the reluctant fear as before.

Gou An's idea was very simple. From today on, she was free, so she no longer needed to have anything to do with the He family. In other words, there would be no entanglement, and of course she would not need their help and favors.

He is no longer her serious elder, so he doesn't need to pay too much attention to her or worry about her anymore.

The handing over of the contact information symbolizes her sensibility——

Thank you for your care in the past, and I am grateful. From today on, let's keep to ourselves (hands clasped together.JPG), and just maintain a normal neighborly relationship where if we unfortunately meet at the doorstep, we nod and smile politely but not awkwardly, and then go our separate ways.

I sincerely hope that when others mention the one million-word bloody battle between Lu Wan and you, the only thing I can talk about is to say while cracking melon seeds: Oh, what a coincidence, he's my neighbor.

The abacus in Gou An's heart crackled and became the happiest movement in the world. She waited happily for He Jinxing to take the note, and then she, Gou, would be free from the curse in the original book and move towards a bright life.

However, after waiting for a while, I found that the hand was still raised and there was no sign of the note being taken away.

“…”

Gou An raised his head blankly and found that the man had turned slightly sideways, lowered his head and was looking at him with a smile.

The two looked at each other in silence for a few seconds.

"'Mr. He,'" the man repeated slowly.

“…”

"Ms. Gou is truly a business genius. She has done a perfect job of 'crossing the river and then destroying the bridge'." He said quietly, "Gou Yu should train you well."

“…………”

"Gou Yu didn't tell you that your engagement with He Ran was cancelled."

He Jinxing smiled and paused before adding, "But your engagement with the He family is still there."

“……………………”

After appreciating the girl's instantly cracked expression for a while, the man raised his hand and touched his chin, "Well, your father was also very unhappy. He was too excited and threw a folder at me, as if there was no good person in our family."

Be reasonable.

His self-analysis is indeed very accurate.

She totally agrees.

"Mr. He——"

The man restrained his relaxed expression slightly and looked at her in silence.

"...Uncle."

"Um?"

Only then did he suddenly understand Chinese and make sounds from deep in his nose.

After thinking about it, he suddenly asked, "Have you added me on WeChat?"

"………add."

"Okay, I'll approve your application in a moment."

The man raised his hand and swept the back of his hand towards her. His voice sounded so gentle (yin and yang) and kind (weird).

"Go ahead."

(End of this chapter)